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Anonymous 9/12/2025, 11:49:54 AM No.150342699 [Report] >>150342704 >>150342715 >>150343212 >>150344412 >>150344533 >>150345179 >>150345740 >>150347462 >>150347528 >>150347568 >>150349579 >>150350432 >>150351371 >>150352699 >>150353012
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How did a man with no drawing talent manage to turn a franchise about kids hanging out with a fat naked dude into a global phenomenon?
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 11:51:08 AM No.150342704 [Report] >>150349783 >>150353012
>>150342699 (OP)
>Justify thing I don't like being popular
Get raped
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 11:52:23 AM No.150342711 [Report] >>150347568
You don't need good art to be entertaining. As long as the writing's solid and holds peoples' interests, it can still get popular.
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 11:53:02 AM No.150342715 [Report]
>>150342699 (OP)
Cuz it’s funny to kids
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 11:53:38 AM No.150342718 [Report]
2000's comic books had more challenging writing than scholastic books and manga today.
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 12:28:33 PM No.150342852 [Report]
>make something fun and entertaining for children
>it succeeds
>/co/: waaahhh!! it isn't deep and morally grey like the punisher!!?
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 1:38:52 PM No.150343212 [Report]
>>150342699 (OP)
Kids love silly characters and potty humor. The simple drawings makes it easy for kids to replicate.
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 4:10:01 PM No.150344412 [Report] >>150344419 >>150347568
>>150342699 (OP)
“Bad” art is easier for kids to connect with since they can doodle it themselves on notebooks. Crude jokes are funny to kids.

It’s really that simple. You’d have more of th see if the literary agents and publishers didn’t insist on printing a bunch of boring ass books with pretty paintings in them that kids don’t want to read.
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 4:11:01 PM No.150344419 [Report]
>>150344412
More of these*
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 4:24:44 PM No.150344533 [Report]
>>150342699 (OP)
He's a funny writer. He's probably better at writing dialogue and gags than illustrating.
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 5:26:50 PM No.150345179 [Report]
>>150342699 (OP)
He funny
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 6:00:09 PM No.150345622 [Report]
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By always inviting the kids to be an active participant in the story with interactive flip o ramas and tutorials on how to make your own
Anonyrnous 9/12/2025, 6:12:00 PM No.150345740 [Report] >>150347568 >>150347664 >>150352657 >>150354246
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>>150342699 (OP)
>it's another 'Dav Pilkey is a shitty artist' thread
It takes a certain level of artistic skill to come up with a crude style that's still super cute and charming and funny like Captain Underpants's, let alone keeping it appealing for two decades straight. I feel like that first [and last] movie DW made really emphasizes what makes Pilkey's style just to nice to look at. It's like a wonkier Charles Schulz in a way

Crude art styles still require skill.
crunchygelato 9/12/2025, 7:13:49 PM No.150346469 [Report]
bacon brown whats bacon brown thats moses he helps us understand that colors or on the lighter side 1 nine thousand 1 eleven thousand
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 8:21:47 PM No.150347462 [Report]
>>150342699 (OP)
I'm so happy for him, his success is well-deserved
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 8:27:08 PM No.150347528 [Report] >>150347568
>>150342699 (OP)
>no drawing talent
Looks nicer than that Summer camp island crap you guys like.
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 8:30:16 PM No.150347568 [Report] >>150347632
>>150342699 (OP)
>>150342711
>>150344412
>>150345740
>>150347528
Look up the Paperboy
Dav CAN draw, the crudeness of his more popular books is very deliberate
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 8:34:49 PM No.150347632 [Report]
>>150347568
I mean that's obvious just from comparing Captain Underpants to Dogman.
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 8:36:52 PM No.150347664 [Report] >>150347803
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>>150345740
"Crude" isn't an appropriate word. He just has a simple artstyle.
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 8:47:21 PM No.150347803 [Report] >>150348415
>>150347664
He didn't draw that series though
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 9:33:31 PM No.150348415 [Report] >>150350365
>>150347803
who did?
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 10:47:17 PM No.150349579 [Report]
>>150342699 (OP)
He got that shit on doe
truteal !!r6dgSKY2bVh 9/12/2025, 10:59:21 PM No.150349767 [Report] >>150350345
Because little boys loved it
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 11:00:22 PM No.150349783 [Report]
>>150342704
fpbp
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 11:37:52 PM No.150350345 [Report]
>>150349767
girls too
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 11:39:02 PM No.150350365 [Report]
>>150348415
Martin Ontiveros and then Dan Santat
Anonymous 9/12/2025, 11:44:21 PM No.150350432 [Report]
>>150342699 (OP)
As Tite Kubo once said: The Heart
Anonymous 9/13/2025, 12:52:57 AM No.150351371 [Report]
>>150342699 (OP)
>How did a man with no drawing talent
Networking
Anonymous 9/13/2025, 2:06:50 AM No.150352657 [Report]
>>150345740
Not crude so much as a high level of intentional graphic design, the UPA inspired stuff everyone loves is the same kind of approach as Pilkey’s cartooning
Anonymous 9/13/2025, 2:08:45 AM No.150352699 [Report]
>>150342699 (OP)
It had soul and genuinely funny writing
Anonymous 9/13/2025, 2:24:24 AM No.150353012 [Report]
>>150342699 (OP)
SCHOLASTIC INC., the premiere publisher of children's literature for over FOUR FUCKING DECADES!!!! FUCK YOUR IGNORANCE, GO RAPE YOUR MOTHER!!!
>>150342704
Go rape your mother, degenerate
Anonymous 9/13/2025, 3:38:53 AM No.150354246 [Report]
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>>150345740
>that first [and last] movie